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Indian Pioneer Papers - Index

Indian Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma
Date: September 29, 1937
Name: Mrs. T. T. Inge
Post Office: Atoka, Oklahoma
Residence Address:
Date of Birth: August 20, 1848
Place of Birth: Green County, Georgia
Father: Reverend R. J. Hogue
Date of birth: March 8, 1820
Place of Birth: Green County, Georgia
Information on father:
Mother: Clarrissa Jenkins
Place of birth:
Information on mother:
Field Worker: Joe Southern

Mrs. T. T. Inge, was born in Green County, Georgia on August 20, 1848, and came to Boggy Depot, Indian Territory, in 1858 and lived there until 1871.

Mail was carried from Doaksville, Indian Territory, to Bonham, Texas, by horseback. The first school she attended was at Boggy Depot, Indian Territory, in a log house covered with native clapboards, floored with split logs. The teacher was a young lady from Illinois, a missionary whose name was Miss Clara EDDY. She remained single throughout life, and when she died, she was buried in the Boggy Depot cemetery.

A doctor of that time was Dr. E. N. WRIGHT, Choctaw Indian. The most contagious disease of that time was smallpox which broke out from soldiers camped there. Several died and were buried at Boggy Depot cemetery.

The first toll bridge was on the southern Stage line on Clear Boggy River between Atoka and Boggy Depot, Indian Territory. This bridge was a wooden structure built by Joe Morris. The Keeper was J. C. FOLSOM, a Choctaw Indian.

A hotel was at Boggy Depot in 1860, Mrs. Inge remembers. The keeper was Alexander NICHOLS. This building was also of logs, a double log house with a hall between, floored with split logs and covered with rived boards.

The salt works located two miles southwest of Boggy Depot was owned by Giles THOMPSON.

G. B. HESTER was a captain of the Confederate army camped at Boggy Depot during the Civil War.

The original owner of the townsite of Atoka, Oklahoma, was Eliza Ann FLACK, a Choctaw Indian.

Mrs. Inge moved from Boggy Depot in 1871, to Atoka, Indian Territory, then was married to T. T. Inge on September 26, 1872, at Boggy Depot. Her maiden name was Tishie Hogue.

Mrs. Inge remembers her father and mother owned a spinning wheel and a loom. The neighbors would meet with them to spin and weave cloth for clothing. Food was very difficult to get. Their meats were principally wild game, some beef and hog meat. Her father and Captain Hester being very close friends, they were able to get their bread stuffs through him during the Civil War.

[Submitters comments: Tranquil Inge was the daughter of The Rev. R. J. (Ralph Jasper) and Clarrissa (JENKINS) Hogue. Rev. Hogue married Clarrissa Jenkins, October 12, 1843.  Rev. Hogue was baptized into the fellowship of the Baptist Church in LaGrange, Georgia in 1838. In November, 1847, he was licensed to preach, and ordained into the ministry October 1850. His dream was to be a missionary in India. That dream was not to be. He moved to Atoka, Indian Territory in 1899. He died October 10, 1906, his wife preceded him in death May 21, 1902. They are interred in the Westview Cemetery in Atoka.]

Transcribed for OKGenWeb by Ruth Atterbury-Adams, April 2001.